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Midnight's Borders
A People's History of Modern India
Buch von Suchitra Vijayan
Sprache: Englisch

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The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along its many contested borders

Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also the site of the world's biggest crisis of statelessness, as it strips citizenship from hundreds of thousands of its people--especially those living in disputed border regions.

Suchitra Vijayan traveled India's vast land border to explore how these populations live, and document how even places just few miles apart can feel like entirely different countries.

In this stunning work of narrative reportage--featuring over 40 original photographs--we hear from those whose stories are never told: from children playing a cricket match in no-man's-land, to an elderly man living in complete darkness after sealing off his home from the floodlit border; from a woman who fought to keep a military bunker off of her land, to those living abroad who can no longer find their family history in India.

With profound empathy and a novelistic eye for detail, Vijayan brings us face to face with the brutal legacy of colonialism, state violence, and government corruption. The result is a gripping, urgent dispatch from a modern India in crisis, and the full and vivid portrait of the country we've long been missing.
The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along its many contested borders

Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also the site of the world's biggest crisis of statelessness, as it strips citizenship from hundreds of thousands of its people--especially those living in disputed border regions.

Suchitra Vijayan traveled India's vast land border to explore how these populations live, and document how even places just few miles apart can feel like entirely different countries.

In this stunning work of narrative reportage--featuring over 40 original photographs--we hear from those whose stories are never told: from children playing a cricket match in no-man's-land, to an elderly man living in complete darkness after sealing off his home from the floodlit border; from a woman who fought to keep a military bunker off of her land, to those living abroad who can no longer find their family history in India.

With profound empathy and a novelistic eye for detail, Vijayan brings us face to face with the brutal legacy of colonialism, state violence, and government corruption. The result is a gripping, urgent dispatch from a modern India in crisis, and the full and vivid portrait of the country we've long been missing.
Über den Autor
Suchitra Vijayan
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 336
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781612198583
ISBN-10: 1612198589
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Vijayan, Suchitra
Hersteller: Melville House Publishing
Maße: 234 x 164 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Suchitra Vijayan
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.05.2021
Gewicht: 0,595 kg
preigu-id: 121070934
Über den Autor
Suchitra Vijayan
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 336
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781612198583
ISBN-10: 1612198589
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Vijayan, Suchitra
Hersteller: Melville House Publishing
Maße: 234 x 164 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Suchitra Vijayan
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.05.2021
Gewicht: 0,595 kg
preigu-id: 121070934
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